Tagged: Property

Housing minister Brandon Lewis has said in a letter to John Midgley, chair of SAFEagent that he has “no plans to make CMP compulsory.” Although disappointed by this SafeAgent is committed to and will...

The Association of Residential Landlords has detailed the evidence that it provided to MPs who are probing so-called ‘revenge evictions’. In summary, the evidence states that revenge eviction is rare and occurs in only...

According to the latest quarterly survey, intermediaries’ are positive about their future levels of mortgage business over the next year, with many advisers expecting to see a 3% average increase over the next 12 months....

From September 2013 to September this year, private rental prices grew just 0.2% across Wales according to the Index of Private Housing Rental Prices from the Office of National Statistics. The figures however contrast...

From today, new powers introduced in the Anti Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 will give landlords the means to evict problem tenants more swiftly. The fast-track process will take into consideration previous...

Retaliatory evictions are to be investigated by the All Party Parliamentary Group for the Private Rented Sector. Such evictions occur when a landlord serves notice on a tenant to the leave their home as...

Overall rents in the UK may have increased by £66 per month in a yearly comparison to reach £1,034 per month. However, where as the South East of England, East Anglia and Scotland have seen advertised...

The latest findings from the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks (AIIC) show that some landlords and letting agencies are still pushing for ‘Betterment’ at the end of tenancies. Simply put, the betterment principle means...

As you may be aware, recent new guidance from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA, previously the Office of Fair Trading) and agreed with the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), states that all rental property...

According to the Residential Landlords Association, the number of private sector tenants evicted has fallen over the past year. According to the most recent English Housing Survey just 7% of tenants that have moved...